International PEN Poem Relay
This is the official website of the International PEN China Campaign Poem Relay
Celebrating Linguistic Diversity and Carrying the Torch for Freedom of Expression in China
The poem 'June' by imprisoned Chinese poet and journalist Shi Tao is relaying around the world, country to country, language to language, until it reaches Beijing for the Olympics in August.
PEN Centres around the world have translated 'June' to over 90 (and still counting) of the world's languages.
When the poem arrives at a new location, you can read and hear a new translation.
Originally scheduled for June 19, the Olympic torch will arrive in Lhasa, Tibet on 21 June. It will now stay there for just three hours. Our poem will arrive on the same day, but stay quite a bit longer. Click on the yellow pin to read and listen to it in Tibetan, translated and recorded by International PEN's Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre, based in Dharamsala, India.
The organisers of the PEN Poem Relay express our profound sympathy for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake and call for the Chinese authorities to honour the dead and the survivors by allowing free reportage of all social, political and scientific aspects of the earthquake and its aftermath. We continue to call for the release of all those in China imprisoned for their writing and for free expression for all those living in China.
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Sydney Centre
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On 24 April you can watch the
video performance of June in...Darug 
Read and listen to it in...
Arrernte 
And also watch video
performances in...English Spanish French - -33.240516 151.501135
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Adelaide PEN
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On 24 April you can read and listen to the poem in...
Adnyamathanha Ngarrindjeri Polish - -34.92577 138.599732
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Afar-speaking Centre
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On 13 April you can...
Read and listen to the poem in Afar
Afar And read the poem in...
French - 11.5806 43.1425
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Afghan Centre
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On 16 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Pashto - 34.5155 69.1952
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Algerian Centre
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On 13 April you can read the poem in...
Arabic Arabic - 36.716667 3.183333
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American Centre
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On 9 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...English Recited by Billy Collins
- 40.7709218528 -74.0897369385
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Austrian Centre
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Arrival: 31 March 2008
Read and listen to the poem in...
German Viennese - 48.2343468258 16.3823890703
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Basque Centre
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On 7 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Basque - 43.2577057398 -2.92819976807
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Belarusian Centre
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On 5 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Belarus - 53.967787 27.576555
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Belgian (Dutch-Speaking) Centre
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On 7 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Dutch - 51.015236 4.202076
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Belgian (French-Speaking) Centre
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On 7 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...French - 50.8371668785 4.36809539795
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Central Asian Centre
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Arrival: 2 April 2008
Read and listen to the poem in...
Kyrgyz - 42.8679 74.5984
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Bosnia-Herzegovina Centre
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Arrival: 1 April 2008
Read and listen to the poem in...
Bosnian - 43.860751 18.42136
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Canadian Centre
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On 9 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Cree - 43.7157828724 -79.493637085
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Catalan Centre
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On 12 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Catalan Tamazight - 41.387917 2.169919
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Chechen Writers Centre
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Arrival: 3 April 2008
Read and listen to the poem in...
Chechen - 43.3091910999 45.6591796875
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Croatian Centre
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Arrival: 1 April 2008
Read and listen to the poem in...
Croatian - 45.79695 15.96053
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Cuban Writers in Exile Centre
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read and listen to the poem in...
Spanish - 25.833887326 -80.2801895142
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Czech Centre
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Arrival: 1 April 2008
Read and listen to the poem in...
Czech - 50.087811 14.42046
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English Centre
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On 6 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...English (Recited by Juliet Stevenson)
and read it in...
Welsh - 51.528987 -0.110261
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Finnish Centre
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On 5 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Finnish - 60.208006 25.082924
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Galician Centre
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On 12 April, you can read the poem in...
Galician - 42.880447 -8.546303
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German Centre
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On 7 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...German - 49.8711850104 8.65310668945
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German-speaking Writers Abroad Centre
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Arrival: 31 March 2008
Read and listen to the poem in...
German German [2] - 50.940664 6.959911
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Greek Centre
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Arrival: 30 March 2008
Read and listen to the poem in...
Greek - 37.97918 23.716647
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Guinean Centre
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On 13 April, you can read the poem in...
Poular - 11.3164606891 -12.2888946533
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Hong Kong (Chinese-speaking) Centre
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On 2 May you can listen to the poem in...
Cantonese - 22.3811904241 114.189491272
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Hong Kong (English-speaking) Centre
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On 2 May you can listen to the poem in...
English - 22.208274 114.02882
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Icelandic Centre
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On 6 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Icelandic - 64.135338 -21.89521
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Iraq Centre
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On 14 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Arabic - 33.319053445 44.384765625
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Irish Centre
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On 6 April you can read and listen
to the poem in...Gaeilge (Gaelic) - 53.356522 -6.372527
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Israeli Centre
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On 15 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Hebrew - 32.050279878 34.7610855103
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Japanese Centre
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On 26 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Japanese - 35.678451 139.682282
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Kenyan Centre
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On 13 April, you can read the poem in...
Swahili - -1.2762 36.7965
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Kurdish Centre
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On 3 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Kurdish Spanish - 38.11581 40.223931
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Lithuanian Centre
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On 5 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Lithuanian - 54.6988367357 25.2507019043
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Macedonian Centre
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On 4 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Macedonian - 42.0281290285 21.4247131348
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Melbourne Centre
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On 24 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Hindi Marathi Yiddish - -37.776946 145.018479
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Mexican Centre
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read and listen to the poem in...
Spanish And read the poem in...
Náhuatl Tsotsil Mayan - 19.42705 -99.127571
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Netherlands Centre
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On 7 April you can read and listen to the poem in...
Frisian Dutch - 52.373812 4.890951
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Nigerian Centre
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On 13 April, you can read the poem in...
Hausa Igbo Yoruba - 7.3917 3.8923
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Norwegian Centre
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On 6 April you can read and listen
to the poem in...Nynorsk
(New Norwegian) Bokmål
(Regular Norwegian) - 59.91382 10.738741
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Paraguayan Centre
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On 11 April you can read the poem in...
Spanish Paraguayan Guarani - -25.2831960128 -57.6600265503
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Philippine Centre
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On 23 April you can read and listen to the poem in...
Bikol Cebuano Hiligaynon Kinaray-a Matigsalog Tagalog Chavacano And read the poem in...
Iloko Tausug - 14.579 120.9726
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Polish Centre
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Arrival: 31 March 2008
Read and listen to the poem in...
Polish - 52.229676 21.012229
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Portuguese Centre
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On 12 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Portuguese - 38.707163 -9.135517
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Romanian Centre
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On 4 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Romanian - 44.447924 26.097879
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Russian Centre
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On 5 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Russian - 55.763711 37.61998
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San Miguel de Allende Centre
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read and listen to the poem in...
Spanish - 20.917292 -100.745351
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Sardinian Centre
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On 12 April you can read and listen to the poem in...
Sardinian Italian Catalan Algherese Algherese-Italian Russian English - 40.727165 8.558468
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Scottish Centre
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On 6 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Scots Scottish Gaelic Irish Gaelic - 55.949332 -3.193825
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Senegalese Centre
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On 13 April, you can read the poem in...
Wolof - 14.74208 -17.43978
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Serbian Centre
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On 4 April you can read the poem in...
Serbian - 44.802416 20.465601
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Sierra Leonean Centre
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On 13 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Krio - 8.46966 -13.26589
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Slovak Centre
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On 4 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Slovak - 48.142963 17.109114
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Slovene Centre
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On 4 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Slovene - 46.05456 14.50443
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South African Centre
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On 13 April you can read and listen to the poem in...
Chichewa Hebrew Swahili Lingala French - -34.0030082126 18.458404541
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Suisse Romand Centre
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On 7 April you can read and listen to the poem in...
French - 46.20381 6.139959
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Swedish Centre
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On 6 April you can read
and listen to the poem in...Swedish Persian - 59.332788 18.064488
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Swiss German Centre